Louisiana’s 6th District. A redrawn congressional map is the result of a legal challenge under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and is poised to deliver an additional seat to Democrats. The Supreme Court’s ruling in a similar case in Alabama last year set off a domino effect throughout…
Georgia Redistricting. A federal judge ruled that Georgia’s congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act and ordered the state to produce a new map for 2024. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has called a special session for redistricting that will convene after Thanksgiving. But unlike in Alabama, it’s unclear that redrawing…
Republican attorney general Jeff Landry cruised to victory in Louisiana’s jungle primary on Saturday night, not only easily outpacing his 14 opponents but also securing the majority of the vote necessary to avoid a runoff.
Landry will succeed Gov. John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South.…
Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Erin Covey discuss the fight for the House majority including the key Toss-up races, races with recent rating changes, and the Republican NASCAR driver running in Maine.
The Inside Elections podcast analyzes congressional, presidential and gubernatorial races in a nonpartisan, data-driven, and accessible way. With…
Montana Senate. A new group calling itself Last Best Place PAC has begun a six-figure ad campaign against GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, the former Navy SEAL and aerial firefighting CEO who is currently the only Republican in the race. Politico points out that, while the PAC’s donors won’t be…
Nathan Gonzales, Erin Covey and Jacob Rubashkin discuss the results of House special elections in Rhode Island and Utah, top races for governor in 2023 and 2024, and the congressional candidates with tickets to space.
The Inside Elections podcast analyzes congressional, presidential and gubernatorial races in a nonpartisan, data-driven, and…
The battle lines have been formally set in the Mississippi gubernatorial contest, with incumbent Republican Tate Reeves and Democratic challenger Brandon Presley advancing to the general election after the August 8 primary.
Presley, the public service commissioner for the state’s northern district, ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, after the…
Gov. John Bel Edwards, a pro-life, pro-gun Catholic from rural Louisiana, is the only Democrat who’s won statewide in Louisiana in the past 15 years. Now that he’s term-limited, Republicans have a prime opportunity to take control of the governor’s mansion — if they can avoid the pitfalls of the…
The general election campaign in Kentucky is more than halfway complete, with less than three months remaining before voters head to the polls to choose their commonwealth’s next chief executive.
And in the three months since Republicans nominated state Attorney General Daniel Cameron to take on Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear,…
By Jacob Rubashkin and Erin Covey
Gubernatorial races during presidential cycles are usually sleepy. Just 11 states are slated to elect a chief executive in 2024, compared to 38 states in midterm cycles, and only one of them ranks among the 10 most populous in the country.
But there is…
